Ezekiel 43:17 · KJV
“And the settle {shall be} fourteen {cubits} long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it {shall be} half a cubit; and the bottom thereof {shall be} a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.”
— Ezekiel 43:17
And the altar {shall be} twelve {cubits} long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These {are} the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
Ezekiel 43 — Context
So the altar {shall be} four cubits; and from the altar and upward {shall be} four horns. {the altar (first): Heb. Harel, that is, the mountain of God} {the altar (second): Heb. Ariel, that is, the lion of God}
16And the altar {shall be} twelve {cubits} long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
17And the settle {shall be} fourteen {cubits} long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it {shall be} half a cubit; and the bottom thereof {shall be} a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
18And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These {are} the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
19And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
Cross References
Exodus 20:26
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Ezekiel 40:6
Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, {which was} one reed broad; and the other threshold {of the gate, which was} one reed broad. {which looketh...: Heb. whose face was the way toward the east}
Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, {were} about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
1 Kings 18:32
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
Exodus 30:3
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. {top: Heb. roof} {sides: Heb. walls}
Exodus 25:25
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
1 Kings 6:8
The door for the middle chamber {was} in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle {chamber}, and out of the middle into the third. {side: Heb. shoulder}
Nehemiah 9:4
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, {and} Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. {stairs: or, scaffold}
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